Carter | London

Throughout the world the global population carries on dramatically rising, the cities expand and we require ever increasing resources to keep our modern world turning.The extraction of metals, minerals and fossil fuels, their processing and consuming which drives and powers our modern world pose the greatest risks to our future and our environment. For we will be known as the toxic generation. Natures dawn chorus has been silenced by our pervasive urbanity, a constant background of noise and a pounding in our heads, in the cities and on the battlefields. These mortars at dawn and their dusty craters of rubble will be our ignominious legacy.

Carter | London Presents

M o r t a r s a t D a w n

Carter | London presents some of the most exciting new art emerging from Britain and Europe at Leroy House London

Exhibition Open | Monday to Friday | 14th May to 6th June 2010 | 10am to 5pm and by appointment

Leroy House | 436 Essex Road | London | N1 3QP

Daniel Jackson | Hilary Jack | Martelli and Gibson | Maslen and Mehra | Jonathan McLeod

Manfred Peckl | Brian Reed | Galen Riley | Dallas Seitz | Covadonga Valdes

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New Contemporary Art

a survey of emerging artists

Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli are london based artists who work together often as igloo. Their practice is multifaceted ranging through installation, intervention, virtualisation, film and performance drawing on the multiple layers of reality and unreality. Much of their work is in recreating environments and systems where coding joins hands with choreographies of the body. Their core concept is the intersection between technology and the human spirit, where our ambivalence to technology is explored with originality, humour and intellect.

Daniel Jackson is a London based artist who explores the synthesis of computer code with human actions, engaging with the ideas propositioned by Malevich, Mondrian, Lewitt and Halley and extending a way forward for conceptual art in this century. By controlling the parameters of the software that he has purposefully created, and with the final edit of the output, he is able to produce rigorously constructed works of art, which encapsulate modern media whether they are classed as sculpture, paintings and one off prints.

Dallas Seitz is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Londonunapologetically utilizes the poetry of objects to combine his interest in collecting, museumology, colonization, personal historyand the falsity of representation. The often-absurd works expose an awareness of the thinking process while recalling museum collections and relationships or narratives created by display. Seitz points us in various directions with a non-intentionality. Seitz's reinterpretation of objects involve a passion for collecting, dissecting, creating, displaying and ultimately saving the cult of contemporary iconography where cult figures are idolized and mythologized,

Thomas Draschan is an Austrian artist living in Vienna. He is working with Video, Film and Collages. The re-combination of existing images into a new, condensed and enriched form is one of his main concerns. Italian porn comics, pop and pop art and films like "svezia, inferno e paradiso" have a strong impact on his current work celebrating italian pop culture from the past and transcending it into a visionary cultish shrine or totem like existence. A Homage for antique heritage and old master renaissance paintings mixed with sex and violence from popular imagery for good measure. Draschan has exhibited widely in Europe and The USA since 1998, he has been the recipient of numerous awards for his experimental films.His films include documentaries on Herman Nitsch The Viennese Actionist and music videos for New Order "Turn".

Brian Reed is a London based artist who creates works from his photographic series of appropriated found images and the ongoing signage pieces. A formidable sense of the end of history permeates the works, the destruction of the world as foretold by many religions. As the burgeoning population continues unchecked and global resources become limited, the increase of in-fighting leads to a self-furfilling prophecy.

His large scale signage work Ideology Converter is embedded with the vernacular of doublespeak, borrowed from the political and corporate spheres. As in previous work the statements are deliberately infused with ambiguous content and meaning. With this black on black text piece a topographical space is created – a space where the words become both a visual and verbal experience. This piece is at once both an apparatus of power, instructing individuals on their conduct and communication, and a memorial to the persuasion of belief systems and their implication. Brian Reed lives and works in London. He has works in various private collections.

Paul Brandford is a London based artist and winner of the Jerwood drawing prize in paintings are often humorous and satyrical a critique of the culture of celebriity, fame, infamy and its mediated portrayal. Many of his paintings are of the anti hero, those who maybe shouldn't be portrayed and are certainly not heroes. But his paintings have an acuity, a wit and a cutting satyrical edge which slices through the rhetoric and lays bare the reality of the subject matter. These paintings explore the continual historicity of portraiture. Royalty, political leaders, Dictators and wannabe leaders question the fundamental of the celebratory portrait. Brandford's paintings toy with charicature and the cartoon in a traditional painterly style more akin to both Hogarth and Goya. This new body of paintings are snapshots from our time, mediated, consumed, digested and finally regurgitated. These paintings are as much about the media and its dissemination, its arguments and positions as they are about celebrity, the all consuming pervasiveness of our culture and the topical events which become news.

Jonathan Gent's paintings and drawings explore a perceptive and wry observation on human complexity. Humorous, wry, and acutely tuned his work is punchy and fast. Sometimes strikingly minimal, they can often be deceptively simple. Gent's obsession is with the line and the expansion of ideas through its limitless possibilities. His observations on close examination feel painfully inciteful and true to life. They are visual poems keenly observed teetering on the brink of pathos and comedy. In this series of new paintings Jonathan Gent embarks on a personal journey into the depths of English consciousness.

Jonathan McLeod is a London based artist who explores universal themes of life, death, rebirth and the lifecycle of our own planet with detailed paintings which accentuate the fragility of our modern world. Symbolistic, mysterious and beautifully crafted, these intense and haunting paintings

become prophetic metaphors of our time Born: St Asaph Wales Jonathan McLeod studied at Chelsea School of Art BA and The Royal College of Art MA. He was awarded the Picker Fellow in painting.

Galen Riley is a London based artist who deploys strategies of the hobbyist – macramé, knitting and sewing – and their repetitive, time-counting nature, to evoke the physical presence of her father (an horologist) by constructing body-parts with fragments of his clothing and left belongings, Covadonga Valdes detailed and intense paintings inhabit both calmness and disquiet and Sarah Baker formerly a Synchronized Swimmer often uses the reflection of celebrity to deconstruct narratives and weave stories around obsession, greed and lust

Sarah Baker is an American artist based in London whose works engage directly with the role models and promises made to little girls as they grow up in western societies. In many cases she makes a deeply honest statement about the tension between wanting to embrace them directly and firmly taking a critical distance. At an early age, Sarah Baker was drawn to the persona of Jackie Collins and the women created by the airport novel tycoon. Others include – Alexis in 'Dynasty' played by Joan- Later Baker would work these interests into her work, directly engaging with representations of women arising from this theatrical world of glamour and power; exploring her own aspirations to it.(pg 2...)

Covadonga Valdes is a London based Spanish artist "They arrived and settled in the Spa Gardens. Then I began to plan my painting with a dartboard in mind. In the process the large, red-orange gas bottle, that had landed in the gardens, with its primitive bomb shape, had to be off-centre. The black tree, a catapult protecting the caravan in a fort of vegetation, crossed the centre. It’s sunny, but we are watching from the shade. Have we been watched watching?"

Isha Bohling is a London based artist her work entitled "Nothing to say" 2010, Mixed media and sound.

"The typewriter was my grandmothers. I used to play on it as child. She used to type letters on it to me. Later in life, she stopped writing and apologized for she felt she did not having anything left to say."

Richard Gaspar is a London based artist soon to embark on a Rome Scholarship . HIs work deconstructs then reassembles with a disjointed wit. Gasper is most interested in creating sculptures that becomes somehow altered, disrupted, ruptured, interrupted or rearranged.

Hilary Jack works across media in research based projects which often involve the collection, repair and rejuvenation of discarded and broken material collected from city streets, charity shops and ebay. The objects she is drawn to are often imbued with a strong sense of human presence, and reference the increasingly accelerated journey objects make from production to consumption, obsolescence and decay. The work takes on a mildly activist edge, sometimes parodying ineffectual attempts by governments, organisations and individuals at societal and environmental improvements, and highlights the inadequacy of action in the face of mass consumption and global waste.

Maslen and Mehra are Australian artists living and working in London Work with a diverse, imaginative and experimental graphic language, Maslen & Mehras' collaborative practice engages in dialogues which compare, contrast and juxtapose the natural and human world in which we live.

Manfred Peckl is an Austrian artist based in Berlin slices, dices and reconfigures. He shreds monographic books of the contemporary mass media, the historical and the scientific into tiny strips and then reconfigures them. Peckl then recreates his own palette

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